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title: "What are the Grafana Drilldown apps? | Grafana Labs"
description: "Queryless exploration interface for metrics and logs"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## What are the Grafana Drilldown apps?

**Grafana Drilldown apps** are queryless exploration interfaces that let you investigate metrics and logs visually without writing queries.

> Note
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> This course applies to both Grafana Cloud and self-managed Grafana (version 11.6 or later).

## The Grafana Drilldown apps suite

The Grafana Drilldown apps include four tools for exploring different telemetry signals. This course covers the two Level 1 infrastructure signals:

| Tool                   | What it explores              | Underlying query language | Covered in this course |
|------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------|------------------------|
| **Metrics Drilldown**  | Prometheus-compatible metrics | PromQL                    | ✓ Yes                  |
| **Logs Drilldown**     | Loki logs                     | LogQL                     | ✓ Yes                  |
| **Traces Drilldown**   | Tempo traces                  | TraceQL                   | Level 2 course         |
| **Profiles Drilldown** | Pyroscope profiling data      | —                         | Level 2 course         |

Metrics and logs are typically available immediately in most environments: from integrations, cloud providers, or existing infrastructure monitoring. Traces and profiles require application instrumentation and represent application-level observability, which we’ll cover in a separate Level 2 course.

## Core capabilities

- **Navigate** data hierarchies using labels and fields
- **Filter** by metadata without query syntax
- **Visualize** time series and log patterns automatically
- **Add findings** directly to dashboards